cfp: AAAI-06 technical track on AI and the Web

			   CALL FOR PAPERS

		 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE WEB

	  a special track of technical conference papers at

     AAAI-06 : 21ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

     Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston, 16-20 July 2006

		    http://www.cs.umbc.edu/aaai06/

Co-Chairs:
   Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
   Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan

Dates:
   February 16, 2006 = Abstracts due
   February 21, 2006 = Full papers due
   July 16-20, 2006 = AAAI 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts

Contact information: aiweb06@cs.umbc.edu

The web has quickly grown from a modest hypertext system of
interest to computer researchers to a ubiquitous information
system including virtually all of human knowledge.  Today's Web
provides ready access to not only text, images, and audio files,
but also to structured and semi-structured information, services
and people.  It offers an open, decentralized (and
uncontrollable!)  environment in which anyone can publish
information and services coupled with powerful search engines and
agents to find and rank results.  All of this is ubiquitously
available from wired, wireless and mobile devices.  Oh, and did
we mention that it's free?

The result is an environment enormously useful to people for
research, learning, commerce, socializing, communication and
entertainment.  We have just begun to explore how this vast
amount of machine accessible knowledge can be exploited and used
by machines -- to better serve human needs as well as to discover
new knowledge.

The special track on "AI and the Web" invites technical papers on
the use of AI techniques, systems and concepts involving the Web.
We are especially interested in receiving papers in two active
research areas: (i) using text and language analysis to interpret
and understand natural language text found on the web and (ii)
developing and exploiting "Semantic Web" languages and systems
that explicitly encode knowledge using languages such as RDF and
OWL.  Innovative papers in other areas describing research
involving both AI and the Web are definitely encouraged also.
The AAAI-06 track on AI and the Web welcomes submissions on all
topics relevant to the track, including:

SEMANTIC WEB
     Information integration
     New/better/different KR languages for the Semantic Web (e.g., RuleML)
     Semantic Web grounded policy languages
     Semantic web and agents
     Semantic web in mobile and pervasive computing
     Semantic web ontologies
     Semantic web services
     Social aspects of web semantics
     Tags and folksonomies
     Proof, trust and provenance for web information
     Applications

NLP AND THE WEB
     Cross-language IR for the web
     Enhancing IR and web search
     Information extraction on the web
     Knowledge acquisition from the Web
     NLP for automating markup
     Machine translation for and using the Web
     Opinion extraction
     Question answering on the web
     Text summarization
     Applications

OTHER AI AND THE WEB RELATED TOPICS
     AI and web-based ecommerce
     AI for P2P and GRID environments
     Intelligent information retrieval
     Intelligent user interfaces for Web systems
     Multi-agent systems on the Web
     Ontologies for the Web (not semantic web related)
     Mining web logs, query logs, blogs
     Recognizing web spam (e.g., link farms, blog spam)
     Recommendation systems
     Social networking and community identification
     Trend spotting
     Link-analysis and graph mining on the Web
     Graph based methods for analyzing Web information
     Web personalization and user modeling

Prospective submitters unsure if their paper is relevant to this
track may send queries to aiweb06@cs.umbc.edu. Papers for this
special track should be prepared and submitted following the
general technical conference paper submission guidelines.
Submitted papers will be reviewed by qualified reviewers drawn
from a special track committee as well as the general program
committee, with the final selections determined by the track
co-chairs in conjunction with the AAAI-06 co-chairs.  Submissions
to this special track that are deemed not to be relevant may be
considered for review for the general technical papers track at
the discretion of the chairs.  Additional information including
the names of the program committee members is available at
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/aaai06/.

Received on Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:51:03 UTC